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A review by underthejunipertree
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
3.25
Finally getting around to reading an assigned book for class, years later.
The pluralism of perspectives initially reads as a dissonant litany of experiences-- the difference in backgrounds, experiences, fates are nearly overwhelming as the bird's eye tracks the survey of Japanese women immigrants who arrive in America-- but it's only in the face of systematic oppression does a more singular experience begin to develop, its own tragic kind of unity in the collective 'we.'
The pluralism of perspectives initially reads as a dissonant litany of experiences-- the difference in backgrounds, experiences, fates are nearly overwhelming as the bird's eye tracks the survey of Japanese women immigrants who arrive in America-- but it's only in the face of systematic oppression does a more singular experience begin to develop, its own tragic kind of unity in the collective 'we.'